Ebay seller offering cigar box of bust half dollars. Claims he bought them at a farm estate auction.

BiddlesBank · April 4, 2007 3:14AM

CIGAR BOX OF BUST HALF DOLLARS

Not mine. Just an innocent bystander.

BB

SilverEagles92 · April 4, 2007 3:16AM

Are 46 AG-XF bust halves worth 6 grand? Sure, they're unsearched for varieties, but $6,000?

FLBuffaloHunter · April 4, 2007 3:16AM

Apparently, the guy gets extremly lucky at farm sales alot. He's posted a few of them.

BiddlesBank · April 4, 2007 3:19AM

<< Are 46 AG-XF bust halves worth 6 grand? Sure, they're unsearched for varieties, but $6,000? >>

By the answers and questions it looks like one is an 1836 reeded edge. That could get a few bidders excited.

saintguru · April 4, 2007 3:22AM

I don't know jack about these, but it looks like a fun deal.

WTH would be a maximum price based on minimal expectations?

TomB · April 4, 2007 3:23AM

There is a fairly extensive thread about this "find" already on the boards.

messydesk · April 4, 2007 3:28AM

<< Are 46 AG-XF bust halves worth 6 grand? Sure, they're unsearched for varieties, but $6,000? >>

One sounds like an 1836 Reeded Edge, which is a big ticket coin, but that leaves about $5K for the other 45. $110 each? Not too much of a stretch considering some of the others I could see (17/3, 08/7, 18/7, nice 1812). If I were to be in for 6 grand, I'd have him e-mail additional pictures, which he may have done.

BiddlesBank · April 4, 2007 3:29AM

<< There is a fairly extensive thread about this "find" already on the boards. >>

TomB

No can find

BB

RYK · April 4, 2007 3:30AM

<< 

<< There is a fairly extensive thread about this "find" already on the boards. >>

TomB

No can find

BB >>

Here ya go

Russ · April 4, 2007 3:31AM

Chapter 3 of the eBay Scammer's Guide.

Russ, NCNE

TomB · April 4, 2007 3:31AM

<< 

<< Are 46 AG-XF bust halves worth 6 grand? Sure, they're unsearched for varieties, but $6,000? >>

One sounds like an 1836 Reeded Edge, which is a big ticket coin, but that leaves about $5K for the other 45. $110 each? Not too much of a stretch considering some of the others I could see (17/3, 08/7, 18/7, nice 1812). If I were to be in for 6 grand, I'd have him e-mail additional pictures, which he may have done. >>

I believe you are interpreting more into the value of the auction than is there.

richardshipp · April 4, 2007 3:31AM

His other "can full" brought 12 K. Wonder what was in it?

Maybe the making of a Country Song...... gloom, despair, angony on me; deep dark depression, excessive misery...

basestealer · April 4, 2007 3:37AM

His feedback shows a history of selling lots from this farm sale, with every buyer pleased

Russ · April 4, 2007 3:42AM

<< His feedback shows a history of selling lots from this farm sale, with every buyer pleased >>

Which, of course, means nothing. eBay bidders who buy raw coins are notorious for their inability to detect problems.

Russ, NCNE

N8 · April 4, 2007 3:47AM

Here is a pic of the two 1836's in this auction (from this thread).

This one is headed to the moon!

options26 · April 4, 2007 4:34AM

I deleted the other pictures received from this seller, but the reeded edge half looked like a really high XF to me. Nice coin, but I assume that $6k will not be the final bid on this lot. Someones willing to take the chance, not me.

123cents · April 4, 2007 4:53AM

That must have been one heck of a farm sell back in December. If you look at all his feedback and see all the coins he has sold from this "Farm Sell" it is unbelievable. (With a heavy emphasis on "Unbelievable".)

Ebay seller offering cigar box of bust half dollars. Claims he bought them at a farm estate auction.

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